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Web site
The website courses.scinet.utoronto.ca/468
will be maintained during the course. It's where you enroll if your not taking the course as a physics grad course, where you find the lecture slides, where you hand in your assignments, and get feedback on those from the instructors.
The website will also have the live-stream of lectures in the Chat tab. You will be able to ask questions in the chat during the lecture. Before and after the lecture, use the Forum to ask questions. After each lecture, the recording will still be made available on the course website.
Location and Times
SciNet Teaching Room
661 University Avenue
Room 1140A (11th floor of the MaRS West Tower)
Toronto, ON
(Location is subject to change pending enrollment numbers.)
Starting March 17, the lectures will now longer be held in person, but are streamed online. You can get the stream from the Chat tab on the course website. You must be logged in to see them.
Tuesdays 11:00 am - 12:00 noon
Thursdays 11:00 am - 12:00 noon
Lecture dates:
The first lecture is on Tuesday January 7th, 2020, the last is on April 2nd, 2020. There will be no lectures during Reading Week (February 17-21).
List of lecture dates:
January 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 2020
February 4, 6, 11, 13, 25, 27, 2020
March 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26, 31, 2020
April 2, 2020
Office hours
For the duration of the course, office hours will be on
- Tuesday from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm at the SciNet offices.
- Wednesday from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the SciNet offices.
SciNet Offices
can be found on the 11th floor of the MaRS West Tower
661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1
Starting March 17, the office hours will be canceled. As a replacement, please post questions on the course forum (you must login to be able to post) or send them by email to courses AT scinet.utoronto.ca.
Instructors
The lecturers for these courses will be Computational Science Specialists at the SciNet High Performance Computing Consortium.
- Ramses van Zon
- Marcelo Ponce
Assignments and Grading
Most weeks, students will be given a programming assignment, with a due
date one week after. These assignments are designed to help
absorb the course material.
There will be ten such assignments. The average of the assignments will make up your grade. To ensure a timely reporting of student grades, we will adhere to the
following policy:
Homework may be submitted up to one week after the due date, at a
penalty of 5% per day taken off from your mark.
Deviations of this rule will only be considered, on a case-by-case
basis, in exceptional circumstances.
All sets of homework need to be handed in for a passing
grade, which is based on the average of the ten sets. If, due to
exceptional circumstances, an assignment was missed, a make-up
assignment can be given at the end of the module. Rather than focusing
on the topic of a specific week, the make-up assignment may involve
any of the material of the course.
List of *tentative* assignment due dates:
January 9, 16, 23, 2020
February 6, 2020
March 2, 9, 19, 26, 2020
April 2, 9, 2020
Course Credit
This course is an official physics graduate course. It is possible for
graduate students outside of Physics to take the course, if they are
allowed to take physics courses. However, they should first
confirm this with the graduate coordinator in their own department.
For participants that cannot take this course for credit (e.g. other
SciNet users), each of the parts can be taken as a 'SciNet course',
which count towards the SciNet certificates.
In particular, participation in parts 1 and 2 counts for 12
credit-hours (each) towards the
SciNet Scientific Computing Certificate, while participation in part 3
counts for 12 credits towards the SciNet HPC Certificate,
and 12 credit-hours towards the SciNet Scientific Computing Certificate.
More information on the SciNet's Certification Program, can be
found here.
